Coming Soon...

Reflections on the greed of aging rockstars...


The joys of Father's Day and the questions you're not expecting on road trips...

Why it's good that Los Angeles keeps you feeling fat, ugly and untalented...




And a bunch of other shit.

Handsome. How I miss you.

Black comedy.

As in black, oily, ecosystem-destroying comedy...

Really, dude? REALLY?

I was rooting for him big-time in 2008. Whatever your political alignment, this is bullshit.

Obama backs lifts on whaling ban.

Oh, Betty....

Thanks to the genius of Hulu, I was finally able to sit down and watch the Saturday Night Live episode with Betty White as host. Hysterical. See for yourself.

It wasn't to anyone's detriment that about a half-dozen of the finest women from prior SNL casts got involved (the episode had a slight Mother's Day theme), but I have a feeling Betty could have pulled off an epic evening without them. Still...it didn't hurt. That being said, I think a strong case could be made for Tina Fey as the 21st-Century Betty White.

Cosmic Gate - Barra

"The man's, uh........he reads poetry out loud, alright?"

With all the other bullshit stress I deal with on a daily basis, the last thing I wanted to see on the front page of the Herald today was the passing of Dennis Hopper. Like Ronnie James Dio leaving this earth but any member of Nickelback being allowed to stay, I'm angry that God took Dennis but left all the mongoloid fuckwits from the Twilight movie series. Although I won't give any of the new crop of vacuous assclowns that make the equally vacuous soccer moms and tweens of America moist in the cotton briefs, I will, however, give several examples to make my case that we lost a huge talent this weekend.

Apocalypse Now is, as far as I'm concerned, the greatest triumph in the pursuit of genius cinema. Dennis Hopper plays a photojournalist who has gone insane and is living in the wilds of Cambodia with the equally wild Colonel Kurtz. He has two monologues that were cornerstones of the film and prime examples of why no one but Hopper could bring that role into flesh and blood like he could. First is at the beginning of the clip, the second is at 6:20. They are both equally spellbinding but the first one takes on a whole new poignancy in the wake of Hopper's passing...

Watch and be amazed.



Then, of course, there's the epic 10 minutes between Dennis and Christopher Walken in True Romance:



And the encore - a classic scene from Blue Velvet. I saw a documentary about Roy Orbison recently that said he was initially horrified by David Lynch's use of "In Dreams" for this sequence, but eventually came to love and embrace it. If that's the case then Roy Orbison was even cooler than I thought, and I already thought he was pretty damn cool.